The First Death
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - June 6, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
In-verse reflection: structured creative writing exercises to promote reflective learning in medical students
AbstractMedical educators recognize the value of reflection for medical students and the role creative writing can play in fostering this. However, direct creative writing tasks can be challenging for many students, particularly those with limited experience in the arts and humanities. An alternative strategy is to utilize an indirect approach, engaging students with structured tasks that obliquely encourage reflection. This paper reports one such approach. We refer to this approach asin-verse reflection, playing on both the structure of the writing and its novel approach to reflection. Students were invited to write, in v...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - May 20, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
From the Editors
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - May 4, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
What is Intergenerational Storytelling? Defining the Critical Issues for Aging Research in the Humanities
Abstract
Intergenerational storytelling (IGS) has recently emerged as an arts- and humanities-focused approach to aging research. Despite growing appeal and applications, however, IGS methods, practices, and foundational concepts remain indistinct. In response to such heterogeneity, our objective was to comprehensively describe the state of IGS in aging research and assess the critical (e.g., conceptual, ethical, and social justice) issues raised by its current practice. Six databases (PsycINFO, MEDLINE, PubMed, Scopus, AgeLine, and Sociological Abstracts) were searched using search terms relating to age,intergenerat...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - April 25, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
(Source: Journal of Medical Humanities)
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - April 23, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Neoliberal Misfits: Reconceptualizing Debility in the Critical Medical Humanities
This article proposesneoliberal misfit as a conceptual tool to remedy the dissolution of subjectivity in these discussions. Pushing back against Jasbir Puar specifically, it argues that processes of debilitation produce a particular type of subject formation often ignored in this body of work. The article does so by distinguishing this subject formation in three contemporary illness narratives that dramatize encounters between ill bodies and accelerating rhythms, competitive atmospheres, and mobile attachments, respectively. Ultimately, the aim is to help the critical medical humanities capture how neoliberal environments ...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - April 6, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Contagion, Quarantine and Constitutive Rhetoric: Embodiment, Identity and the “Potential Victim” of Infectious Disease
AbstractThrough a rhetorical analysis of fragments of language used by United States public health experts, victims, and advocates during the early periods of polio, HIV and COVID-19, this project shows how constitutive rhetoric within infectious disease discourse articulates the subject position ofpotential victim for different publics. The author finds that the analyzed discourse simultaneously calls forth a negative identity that asks people to not become something and also asks for actions to prevent disease spread – and, in doing so, the awakening ofpotential victim reveals hegemonic assumptions about whose bodies a...
Source: Journal of Medical Humanities - March 10, 2022 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
